Dhiraj Nayyar At the start of her fourth Budget speech, Nirmala Sitharaman said that she would be laying out a blueprint for the next 25 years. Interestingly, over the next 90 minutes, she also laid out a blueprint for an ideal budget. At…
T K Arun The budget gambles that the pandemic will retreat in the next couple of months and that large-scale state funding will strengthen recovery, visible in double-digit growth of capital good imports, strong export growth and improvement in the…
Harsh V. Pant One year into office and the Biden Presidency is coming apart at the seams. Normally, United States (US) presidents enjoy a honeymoon period for a year, but Joe Biden’s leadership has been flailing since the disastrous withdrawal…
IMPRI Team There is a stark discrepancy in academic work dealing with India’s major metropolitan cities and those concerned with small towns. Consequently, there are limitations to the information that we possess about local governance. To bridge this information gap,…
IMPRI Team Gender equality is one of the most hotly debated topics in the country. However, this enthusiasm for gender equality persists only up to the limits of cities and is hardly discussed in the context of the rural or…
Tikender Singh Panwar There is widespread traction for an urban employment guarantee scheme, similar to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in the urban spectrum. This demand comes not just from youth organizations but also from workers’…